All -- First, while watching the Bo'Sox game last night, I did a quick look @ the document, took off the binding and started to scan it. I am about 1/2-3/4 way through the scanning process. I know there were a few errors with miss-feeds in my HP scanner, so I'm going to look at each page before I pass it on to everyone to make sure we have it all and it's readable.
Just to set proper expectations for the list, I have a large STEM oriented engagement that I'm running/hosting for about 250 young people all day tomorrow and Sunday PM, some family commitments Sunday evening, so I'm not sure if I will complete the scanning process for a few days, as my "free time" is being eaten up (The Science and Tech Expo is something I've been working on for over a year, so it is my high order attention bit at the moment). Second, I did peek at the document during the scanning process. As I had correctly remembered, the appendix *does* seem to include the post C30 IMP info -- although the front matter does not (which has pics of original IMPs connected to an ASR33). My guess is that the front portions of the document was never rewritten or re-photographed. What the folks @ BBN seem to have done was remove outdated appendices and add/rewrite the affected ones. The fact that I no longer have the '76 version of the document is that at some point during a move, I must have felt anything that was needed was included in this version. I have not compared to the online version in Al's archives, to see the connect from the appendices were that were removed. The point being, anyone on this list that wants to do a re-engineering project probably need to look at the '76 or earlier version since that is likely to be what DEC CSS used to create the PDP-10 interface like we had at my time at CMU. That said, the Vaxen at UCB were attached via a C30 (as opposed to the original Ing70 system), so that interface would have had to be compliant with the document I have in my possession. Third, specifically to Al - "bitsavers". My apologies, mei culpa. I never claimed to get an 800 on the English part of the SAT ;-) Between dyslexia, being a very poor typist, and Apple's auto-magic spell check/correct, I messed up. I did not intend to offend and will try to use the proper attribution in the future. That said, please do let me know offline on how to get the bits to you - ftp, dropbox, google or the like. And what you want - the raw scans from my HP (which includes OCR of the index) or after I merge the different scans (which for some reason I have not yet figure out causes the OCR stuff that HP inserts to be lost when you laminate the even/odd pages into a single scan. i.e. please tell me what works best. As I said, I will try to get this done reasonably soon, but I have some other commitments. Clem
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